jax_joe
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that was that ass awful event here in JAX at 9 Ball Heaven. I don't recall Schmidt being there but I only went one day.
International Straight Pool 14.1 Championship - November 23-26, 2024
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yep, and some of them were great events. even had sigel and cool cat ray martin in one. george fels doing comms and hohmann in his absolute peak. some events were poor, and cw was a questionable character, but overall it was good stuff
Thanks, I just couldn't place it.
From 2006-2010, it was a premier world-class event. From 2011-2019, after WPA sanctioning had been lost, despite the delusional view of the event producer, the Dragon event never had a field that could match that of the European 14.1 Championships. In that period, the best 14.1 event in America was probably the one at the Derby City Classic. Now, nothing in America can touch the American 14.1 championship.
nice to see mika's nameSince this is between the International Open 9-Ball and the Mosconi Cup, I would think all of the MC players would enter both. Maybe they want to rest. Pia could play.
I also hope Ruslan can make it, but it might depend on where he's living now. I see he posted a "reel" on Facebook in August of him making a Z-bank on a pyramid table.
- William Abbott United States
- Johnny Archer United States
- Danny Barouty United States
- Francesco Candela Italy
- Lee Vann Corteza Philippines
- Max Eberle United States
- JJ Faul South Africa
- Niels Feijen Denmark
- Rick Funk United States
- Fedor Gorst United States
- Denis Grabe Estonia
- Tim Hall United States
- Mario He Austria
- Jim Heller United States
- Sam Henderson United States
- Thorsten Hohmann Germany
- Mika Immonen Finland
- Konrad Juszczyszyn Poland
- Bob Keller United States
- Pijus Labutis Lithuania
- Bob Madenjian United States
- Anthony Meglino United States
- Sean Morgan United States
- John Morra Canada
- Moritz Neuhausen Germany
- Albin Ouschan Austria
- Alex Pagulayan Canada
- Don Polo United States
- Tony Robles United States
- John Schott United States
- Brandon Shuff United States
- Jani Siekkinen Finland
- Ralf Souquet Germany
- Tyler Styer United States
- Marco Teutscher New Zealand
- Billy Thorpe United States
- Shane Van Boening United States
- Jan Van Lierop Netherland
- Michael Yednak United States
- Wiktor Zielinski Poland
he must be doing better health wise
i remember the years just following the loss of sanctioning being quite good, partly because the USA based europeans at the time were really good straight pool players (darren, mika, toastie) but also guys like bustie, alex, schmidt, corey. don't know to which degree they ventured to the EC 14.1. then the dragon event tapered off around 2014 and the only notable things i can remember were the earl vs shaw incident and evgeny stalev running the set out against mike davis.
burrows' event is great.
No, that was the BCA US Open 14.1. Great event, but it was neither a Dragon event nor a sanctioned World 14.1 championship. Agreed it was a superb event with a fine field.
A reasonable point, but the loss of sanctioning in 2011 soon meant that Feijen, Ouschan, Engert, and Ortmann would soon stop showing up. These four combined for twelve European 14.1 titles. The Dragon 14.1 fields were never the same once these players stopped showing up.
Dragon had gotten the WPA to agree to only $25k added, which was way below the standard of $75k or $100k at the time for a World Championship in the other pool disciplines. The agreement was for five years. The sanctioning was voided when Dragon failed to come up with the added money. I'm not sure whether all the sanctioned events had the full 25k.
Here is the history of the WC on Wikipedia which strangely has the Dragon unsanctioned events listed as well....